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A 3700-year-old clay tablet has proved that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics that could change how we calculate today.
From the notched bones of early man to the mathematical advances brought about by settled agriculture in Mesopotamia and Egypt and the revolutionary developments of ancient Greece and its Hellenistic empire, the story of mathematics is a long and impressive one.